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Strange that this article tries to paint anyone right-wing who postulated this theory way before the mainstream finally accepted it as being racist or crazy, as

Strange that this article tries to paint anyone right-wing who postulated this theory way before the mainstream finally accepted it as being racist or crazy, as if nobody had talked about this evidence back then. The journal articles published by the lab were public information, as was their prior lab leaks in 2019, poor safety practice anecdotes, etc. Thousands of social media accounts got banned on all the major platforms during months of suppression all because this theory didn't fit Big Tech's political agenda. Will they get unbanned? Will anyone of them apologise? No, it's business as usual for our corporate overlords. If you're on the wrong side of their agenda then you'll be cancelled even with paper thin reasoning.

jkhdigital 5y ago
Yeah, it’s a good article except for the gratuitous sprinkling of partisan barbs against any and all not-left-of-center political affiliations.
knowaveragejoe 5y ago
> Strange that this article tries to paint anyone right-wing who postulated this theory way before the mainstream finally accepted it as being racist or crazy That'd be because of the company they keep. If you're aligning yourself with with incompetent nutjobs like the modern GOP and its allies, it's kind of hard to take anything you say seriously even if it is grounded in hard fact or within the realm of possibility. > Thousands of social media accounts got banned on all the major platforms during months of suppression all because this theory didn't fit Big Tech's political agenda. Source for this claim? IIRC people of all stripes have been banned for a variety of things in recent months/years. But it just so happens right-wing pundits with audiences in the millions have been pushing thinly veiled white nativism and wild conspiracy theories that tend to lead to despondent, isolated people taking matters into their own hands in a violent fashion. "Antifa" doesn't have a mouthpiece or a talking head on primetime TV every night, but some of their more popular accounts(followers in the tens of thousands) have been banned along similar lines.

jkhdigital 5y ago

Yeah, it’s a good article except for the gratuitous sprinkling of partisan barbs against any and all not-left-of-center political affiliations.

knowaveragejoe 5y ago

> Strange that this article tries to paint anyone right-wing who postulated this theory way before the mainstream finally accepted it as being racist or crazy That'd be because of the company they keep. If you're aligning yourself with with incompetent nutjobs like the modern GOP and its allies, it's kind of hard to take anything you say seriously even if it is grounded in hard fact or within the realm of possibility. > Thousands of social media accounts got banned on all the major platforms during months of suppression all because this theory didn't fit Big Tech's political agenda. Source for this claim? IIRC people of all stripes have been banned for a variety of things in recent months/years. But it just so happens right-wing pundits with audiences in the millions have been pushing thinly veiled white nativism and wild conspiracy theories that tend to lead to despondent, isolated people taking matters into their own hands in a violent fashion. "Antifa" doesn't have a mouthpiece or a talking head on primetime TV every night, but some of their more popular accounts(followers in the tens of thousands) have been banned along similar lines.